If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
HINNAH MIANEvery beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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I am unbearably human.
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There is a calmness in not knowing.
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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I don’t like how your embrace feels like comfort till the knife thrust.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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I have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.
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I turn moments into poetry.
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I always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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I like to trace the ghosts of your fingers on the back of my hand. They read- I don’t know how to hold without you.
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